Interleukin 1 alpha mRNA in virus-transformed T and B cells.

abstract：:We investigated the effect of in vivo hypothyroidism on the sialylation and sulfation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) secreted by mouse pituitary explants. Oligosaccharides from secreted thyroid-stimulating hormone from hypothyroid animals contained greater sialic acid relative to sulfate in both alpha and beta s...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： DeCherney GS,Gesundheit N,Gyves PW,Showalter CR,Weintraub BD

更新日期：1989-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor with pleiotropic effects in normal physiology or vascular development, xenobiotic metabolism, and cancer. A previous study has reported that BRG1, a component of the SWI/SNF complex, is a coactivator for AHR and is recruited to the promoter...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Jin HL,Jeong KW

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGFbeta is of crucial importance during transdifferentiation of resting retinoid-storing hepatic stellate cells (HSC) to extracellular matrix producing myofibroblasts (MFB) and consequently, inhibition of TGFbeta signal transduction is an effective means for preventing experimental fibrosis. We have shown that isolate...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dooley S,Streckert M,Delvoux B,Gressner AM

更新日期：2001-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) functions as an important rate-limiting enzyme of aerobic glycolysis that is involved in tumor initiation and progression. However, there are few studies on effective PKM2 inhibitors. Gliotoxin is a marine-derived fungal secondary metabolite with multiple biological activities, including immu...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Tang W,Liu ZL,Mai XY,Qi X,Li DH,Gu QQ,Li J

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Why bovine odorant-binding protein (OBPb), among OBP family, assumes a dimeric structure has been unclear. Here we clarified, by measuring the fluorescence of intrinsic tryptophan and tyrosine residues of intact OBPb and OBPb whose C-terminal 10 amino acids were deleted, that odorant enters the central pocket formed b...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ikematsu M,Takaoka D,Yasuda M

更新日期：2005-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of acute exercise on lipolysis via coordination of hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) and scaffold proteins, i.e., perilipin A and comparative gene identification-58 (CGI-58), in rat primary adipocytes. Glycerol release was significantly elevated immediately (...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Ogasawara J,Nomura S,Rahman N,Sakurai T,Kizaki T,Izawa T,Ishida H,Haga S,Ohno H

更新日期：2010-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaline elastase YaB, produced by alkalophilic Bacillus YaB, is an extracellular serine protease having 55% homology to subtilisin BPN' and thus could be called subtilisin YaB. It is synthesized as a 378-amino acid preproenzyme and secreted into the culture medium as a 265-amino acid mature protease. To examine if th...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Chang YC,Kadokura H,Yoda K,Yamasaki M

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Methiocarb, an aromatic-alkyl sulfide insecticide was enzymatically oxidized into its sulfoxide by microsomes from soybean cotyledons. No further oxidation into sulfone was detected. Distribution of the sulfoxidase activity was studied in soybean seedlings and found maximal in cotyledons. Subcellular fractionation of ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Blee E,Durst F

更新日期：1986-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of opioids on NO production by LPS-stimulated murine macrophages J774 has been investigated. Morphine (mu and k opioid receptor agonist), DAGO (selective mu receptor agonist) and U50-488H (selective k receptor agonist), added (10(-10)-10(-6) M) to the cells 0.5 h before activation with LPS, significantly in...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iuvone T,Capasso A,D'Acquisto F,Carnuccio R

更新日期：1995-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of a human lymphoma cell line deficient in adenosine deaminase, adenosine kinase and methylthioadenosine phosphorylase enabled us to compare the effects of nucleoside transport inhibitors on the excretion of endogenously generated adenosine, deoxyadenosine and 5'-methylthioadenosine. The nucleoside tr...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iizasa T,Kubota M,Carson DA

更新日期：1984-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminoglycoside antibiotic (AGA) neomycin is a known agonist of the extracellular calcium-sensing receptor (CaR). To test whether other AGA drugs stimulate the CaR, we studied the relative effects of four AGAs on intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) using CaR-transfected human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： McLarnon S,Holden D,Ward D,Jones M,Elliott A,Riccardi D

更新日期：2002-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen-dependent diseases, especially breast cancers, are frequently treated with aromatase inhibitors. Another more recent strategy is the antisense technology. In this study, after predicting aromatase mRNA secondary structure, we describe the design, the efficiency, and the toxicity of two antisense phosphorothio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Auvray P,Sourdaine P,Séralini GE

更新日期：1998-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Rbx1 and Rbx2 are essential components of Cullin-RING E3 Ligases. Vif is generally believed to preferentially recruit the Cul5-Rbx2 module to induce proteasomal degradation of antiretroviral enzyme APOBEC3G, although some investigators have found that the Cul5-Rbx1 module is recruited. Here, to investigate the functio...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang X,Wang X,Wang W,Zhang J,Wang J,Wang C,Lv M,Zuo T,Liu D,Zhang H,Wu J,Yu B,Kong W,Wu H,Yu X

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The autophagy pathway has previously been suggested as an important protective factor in liver injury. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the protective, autophagy-modulating effect of tri-iodothyronine (T3) on liver ischemia reperfusion injury. METHODS:Liver ischemia reperfusion was...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Yang J,Wang Y,Sui M,Liu F,Fu Z,Wang QX

更新日期：2015-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallosphaera sedula is a thermoacidophilic autotrophic archaeon and known to utilize the 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle (3-HP/4-HB cycle) as a carbon fixation pathway. The 3-HP/4-HB cycle in M. sedula is associated with central metabolism, and malate dehydrogenase (MDH) is an enzyme involved in the cent...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lee D,Hong J,Kim KJ

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple deletions of mtDNA have not only been implicated in aging, but also in a wide variety of pathological conditions. The enzyme system used in long-PCR makes it possible to synthesize the entire mitochondrial genome (16.5 kb), exposing the multiple deletions in mtDNAs implicated in and, at least partially, respo...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Reynier P,Malthiery Y

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that the orphan receptor Germ Cell Nuclear Factor (GCNF) binds to a direct repeat of the sequence AGGTCA with zero base pair spacing (DR0). Here, we further characterize the binding characteristics of GCNF. We demonstrate that GCNF binds specifically to DR0s as a homodimer, and does not bind with high af...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Cooney AJ,Hummelke GC,Herman T,Chen F,Jackson KJ

更新日期：1998-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:UCP-2 is a member of the emerging family of UCP homologues. Upon high-fat feeding, UCP-2 mRNA levels are increased in epididymal fat pads of A/J mice, suggesting that the flux of fatty acids entering adipose tissue may regulate UCP-2 gene expression. Since fatty acids act as positive transcriptional regulators of lipi...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Aubert J,Champigny O,Saint-Marc P,Negrel R,Collins S,Ricquier D,Ailhaud G

更新日期：1997-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The spindle checkpoint is a surveillance mechanism that ensures the fidelity of chromosome segregation in mitosis. Here we show that fission yeast casein kinase II (CK2) is required for this checkpoint function. In the CK2 mutants mitosis occurs in the presence of a spindle defect, and the spindle checkpoint protein M...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Shimada M,Yamamoto A,Murakami-Tonami Y,Nakanishi M,Yoshida T,Aiba H,Murakami H

更新日期：2009-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a physiologically regulated and evolutionary conserved process that plays a critical role in degradation of cytoplasmic proteins and other macromolecules within the lysosomes. Beclin-1, the mammalian orthologue of yeast Atg6, is an important mediator of autophagy that has been studied in many human cancer...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kapoor V,Paliwal D,Baskar Singh S,Mohanti BK,Das SN

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen resistant N2-fixing Escherichia coli, which can grow at a high oxygen concentration in a nitrogen-free medium, were produced by several times of cultivation under a condition of 0.03% oxygen. Six isolated resistant strains could grow at an oxygen concentration ten times that of the parent strain. The nif-genes ...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Iwahashi H,Someya J

更新日期：1990-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:REV-ERBα is a nuclear heme receptor, transcriptional repressor and critical component of the molecular clock that drives daily rhythms of metabolism. Evidence reveals that REV-ERBα also plays an important regulatory role in clock-dependent lung physiology and inflammatory responses. We hypothesize that cigarette smoke...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sundar IK,Rashid K,Sellix MT,Rahman I

更新日期：2017-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Horny Goat Weed is a commonly used in Chinese herbal medicine. And it is used in multiple kinds of diseases including cardiovascular diseases. Icariin is the major component isolated from Horny Goat Weed. It is reported to have lipid-lowering effect. In atherosclerosis, icariin attenuate the enhanced prothrombotic sta...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Wang Y,Wang YS,Song SL,Liang H,Ji AG

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Protocols were defined that enable patch-clamp studies of the approximately 107 pS voltage dependent channel and a class of activity we refer to as MCC (multiconductance channel) which is characterized by multiple levels and transitions as high as 1 to 1.5 nS. If free calcium was kept at 10(-7) M or lower during mitoc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kinnally KW,Zorov D,Antonenko Y,Perini S

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence for the presence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) in malignant brain tumors, and these CSCs may play a pivotal role in tumor initiation, growth, and recurrence. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) promotes the proliferation of vascular endothelial cells (VECs) and the neurogenesis of neur...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Oka N,Soeda A,Inagaki A,Onodera M,Maruyama H,Hara A,Kunisada T,Mori H,Iwama T

更新日期：2007-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia and the androgen receptor (AR) play important roles in the development and progression of prostate cancer. In this study, the combined effects of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and hypoxia on AR-mediated transactivation were investigated. Hypoxia alone did not induce a detectable ARE-mediated response in the absenc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Park C,Kim Y,Shim M,Lee Y

更新日期：2012-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfactant convertase is required for conversion of heavy density (H) natural surfactant to light density (L) subtype during cycling in vitro, a technique that reproduces surfactant metabolism. To study mechanisms of H to L conversion, we prepared liposomes of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and phosphatidylglyc...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Dhand R,Sharma VK,Teng AL,Krishnasamy S,Gross NJ

更新日期：1998-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The repair of point mutations in hprt gene by single-stranded oligonucleotides represents a model to test targeted nucleotide exchange. We studied the concurrent nucleotide exchange of two or three nucleotides in the hprt deficient hamster cell line V79-151. The used oligonucleotides resulted in mismatches at two (151...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Kenner O,Lutomska A,Speit G,Vogel W,Kaufmann D

更新日期：2004-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many calmodulin-dependent biological phenomena are regulated by calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. In Dictyostelium discoideum, cell and pronuclear fusion during fertilization are both calmodulin-dependent biomembrane fusion events. Calmodulin-dependent phosphorylation and dephosphorylation ac...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Lydan MA,O'Day DH

更新日期：1993-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Androstenedione is reduced to form testosterone by 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17 beta HSD) and two different reductive isoforms of the enzyme have been identified (types 1 and 3). In this study, levels of mRNA encoding both reductive isoforms have been measured during fetal and post-natal development in the...

journal_title：Biochemical and biophysical research communications

authors： Sha J,Baker P,O'Shaughnessy PJ

更新日期：1996-05-06 00:00:00